What do you think of putting treadmill desks in schools?

[Taem]

Overall, I think it is a ridiculous notion.

You'd be better off with more organized Phy. Ed. -- take overly intensive capital investment, with high recurring costs, and invest it in better teacher training, including more Phy. Ed. and special education professionals.

The problem is what has been proven with numerous studies (article summing up most of the studies) is that the act of sitting for to long takes years off your life expectancy and increases your risk of heart disease. So no matter how much physical exercise the kids exert at PE, they are still going to die sooner with more ailments then if they were made to even stand at their desk all day, which brings me to Drasca's recent post:

Simpler solution: Remove all those chairs. Make them stand! No sleeping at the desk for you. Bwahahahahah.

That is actually the best idea I've heard yet! Here is a really great article on a study done in Australia: LINK . The study was done at the Sax Institute's 45 and Up Study using 222,497 Australian adults 45 years or older with their likelihood of death in the next three years. While most of us don't fit into that last part of the statement, the results learned from said study are striking, that the longer you sit in general, the higher your chances of developing serious issues! Sitting more than four-hours a day will slowly kill you, that's an indisputable fact! So standing at desks instead of sitting is actually a fantastic idea and well within the realm of affordability for schools! Need I even mention that once these "sitting" studies are linked to long term obesity and disease (which I honestly believe they will be), then its only a matter of time until parent groups sue the schools for causing their children to become obese and sick through excessive sitting? I'd prefer our schools to be proactive then to follow the examples of our government; legislation through crisis. I'd like to believe our public schools had our children's best interests at heart.